logo

Quotes About Tolerance

But how long will this kind of tolerance last? How long can anyone bear to live with someone whose mind wanders off to a place where their love no longer exists?
~ Edwidge Danticat
The degree of pain we are experiencing at any time almost always includes two variables: the stimulus "causing" the discomfort, and the threshold for tolerance—that is, the capacity to overcome or perhaps reduce the sensation itself.
~ Edwin H. Friedman
But the trouble with simulations is that they put up with far too much shit.
~ Alastair Reynolds
The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial.
~ Alban Goodier
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
~ Albert Camus
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
~ Albert Claude
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
~ Albert Einstein
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.
~ Albert Einstein
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
~ Albert Ellis
We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign people. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing if higher value than truth itself
~ Albert Hourani
Again and again the tobacco smell on the Master's breath and clothes had sickened the collie; so had the supposedly delicate perfumes used by the Mistress. Yet blithely had Lad endured these affronts to his tortured nostrils, in order to remain close beside these two humans who were his gods.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
Oblivious of Harlow, for whom they had all a dog's amusedly tolerant contempt for an inefficient human leader, the quintet swept away on the track.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Lo que ocurre es que la gente no tolera el humor, lo nuevo y lo grande. Es preciso estar dotado de grandeza para no meter al artista creador dentro de la gran bolsa de los ruidos.
~ Alberto Laiseca
Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.
~ Alcee Hastings
Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.
~ Alcee Hastings
Sueño Un grupo de ciegos, lanzando insultos, se golpean con sus bastones. Uno de ellos me quiere atacar. Le digo: «No es necesario que se pelee conmigo. Yo no soy ciego».
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
And yet had not a pagan the right to be a pagan?
~ Alex Haley
We are not here to judge others. We are here to follow our hearts and play our roles, not condemn the actions of others (or ourselves).
~ Alex Marcoux
To project our own worldview is to refuse to learn what happened, which prevents us comprehending worldviews that differ significantly from our own. If we insist on treating history as a mirror, we shall see only ourselves.
~ Alexander Adams
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
~ Alexander Chase